The Promise

More horrors! If this film has anything serious to say, it’s a hysterical invective against Catholicism and men, and haven’t Spaniards already done these things to death, more playfully, more subtly? We’re literally conflating men with Satan here in this absurd tale of a slightly crazy woman who achieves liberation in a roundabout way and becomes the Patron Saint of Oppressed Women (you think I’m joking) by killing off bastards of men (ie, every man). Awful!